a handsome town of France, in Burgundy, remarkable for its excellent wine, and for an hospital founded here in 1443. Its collegiate church is also one of the finest in France; the great altar is adorned with a table enriched with jewels; and its organs are placed on a piece of architecture which is the admiration of the curious. E. Long. 4° 50. N. Lat. 47° 2.

BEAUSOBRÉ (Isaac de), a learned minister of the reformed religion, was born at Niort. He retired into Holland; and from thence to Berlin, where he was made chaplain to the king of Prussia, and counsellor of the Royal Conventry. He wrote a Defence of the Doctrines of the Reformation; a Translation of the New Testament into French, with notes, in two vols quarto; and several other works. He died in 1738, aged 79.